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In 1912 about 10,000 chinook fingerlings from Columbia River eggs 

 furnished by the United States Bm-eau of Fisheries were planted by 

 the Massachusetts Fish Commission in Lake Quinsigamond, and 

 during July, 1914, about 20 months after they were hatched, over 

 600 salmon, according to a member of the commission, were caught, 

 ranging from 1^ to 5 pounds each. 



Other plants have been made since in Lake Quinsigamond and 

 other lakes and ponds, with fairly satisfactory results, and the 

 ultimate outcome of the experiment is awaited with much interest. 



The most successful effort in this hne was initiated by the United 

 States Bureau of Fisheries in the fall of 1913, when it transferred 

 from its hatcheries on the Pacific coast to those in Maine 13,240,000 

 humpback-salmon eggs. These were followed by a second shipment 

 of 7,022,000 eggs in the fall of 1914, a third shipment of about 

 7,000,000 eggs m the fall of 1915, and others each year since. These 

 eggs were hatched out and the fry planted in various selected New 

 England streams where the conditions seemed favorable. 



Early in August, 1915, a female humpback salmon 22^ inches long 

 and weighing 4 pounds 3 ounces was taken at the Bangor water- 

 works in the Penobscot River. Shortly after a male fish of about 

 the same size was taken in this river atOrlandDam. A little later 

 agents of the Bureau captured 20 alive near Bangor, and about 

 3,000 eggs were obtained and fertilized. 



In Dennys River, in Maine, during the period between August 15 

 and September 24, local fisheimen caught a number. Since then 

 they have been running regularly each season into certain of these 

 streams. 



The chinook salmon has also been acclimatized in the waters of 

 New Zealand. They were first introduced in 1900, and eggs were 

 imported for six yeais in succession. A considerable annual run 

 now enters those rivers in which the salmon were planted. 



In 1908 the L'nited States Buieau of Fisheries initiated an effort 

 to establish a run of sockeye salmon in Grandy Creek, a stream in the 

 immediate vicinity of the Birdsview (Wash.) hatchery of the Bvueau, 

 and one which had not been visited by tliis species. The first fish, 

 numbering 64,000, were planted in the creek in 1908. Four years 

 aftcT wards, in September, 1912, the first sockeye salmon entered the 

 hatchery trap in Grandy Creek, and from them 222,000 eggs were 

 secured. In 1916 the water in the creek was too low to permit the 

 ascent of salmon until September 26, when its level was slightly 

 raised by local lains, and a few fish immediately entered it and were 

 taken in the hatchery trap. The eggs secured from the small number 

 available amounted to 24,500. The 1920 run is being awaited with 

 much interest. 



In 1916 L. H. Darwin, commissioner of fish and game for the 

 State of Washington, began an experiment looking to the stocking, 

 with sockeye salmon, of the Samish River, a stream debouching in 

 Puget Sound, and in which this species had not hitherto been foimd. 

 The parent fish were obtained from traps and transported alive in 

 crat&s to the Samish State hatchery, where they were held until i-ipe 

 and then stripped and fertilized. After hatching, the fry were 

 planted in the stream. A few returned in 1920. 



